Clean the World Needs Your Support in its Push for Pepsi Grant

Clean the World, an Orlando, Fla.-based organization focused on collecting partially used soap and shampoo for those in need, is in the hunt for a $25,000 grant through the Pepsi Refresh Everything project. How can you help? Click here to cast your vote. You can also text 101319 to Pepsi (73774) one time a day. I do not typically endorse organizations here at Green Lodging News but I have been impressed with the work of Clean the World since their start last year. They are a perfect match for the lodging industry. Through their soap and shampoo collection efforts, they are reducing the volume of waste sent to landfills.

Clean the World is also helping the homeless and others in need here in the United States and around the world.

With the $25,000 it would receive as a result of the grant, Clean the World would be able to expand its recycling efforts and improve its educational outreach to schools on the topic of proper hand washing to prevent disease.

In the article I wrote this past May, I updated readers on the progress of Clean the World. It is in the process of expanding its recycling centers throughout the United States and also into Canada (Vancouver, B.C.).

Why are soap and shampoo programs important? According to the World Health Organization, 3.5 million children die from treatable illnesses such as pneumonia and diarrheal disease each year. That is the equivalent of 9,000 children daily. Up to 65 percent of the deaths could be prevented by simple hand washing with soap and water.